If you're unfamiliar with a framework -- whether it's Django, Rails, Express, Angular, or React -- much of the structure it imposes on your code feels tedious,

If you're unfamiliar with a framework -- whether it's Django, Rails, Express, Angular, or React -- much of the structure it imposes on your code feels tedious, over-architected, bloated, or just plain silly. Once you've built a couple applications from scratch without using a framework, you begin to realize just how boring and error-prone things can get when you do them by hand. I want to get to the good stuff, the meat of my application, as quickly as possible. Knowing a framework inside-out lets me do just that. Maybe the next time you're forced into using a framework, start looking at how it's put together under the hood. It's educational and a lot of fun. And you realize just how much accumulated knowledge these frameworks contain :)